articlesforchristians

Author

• Zechariah
• Zechariah means “The Lord Remembers”

Date

• 520-475 B.C.
• During and after the ministry of Haggai.

Theme

• The Lord remembers Zion

Purpose

• Zechariah prophesied during the time of Haggai, encouraging the Israelites to continue and complete the work of the temple.
• He later prophesied concerning the assurance of restoration for the people of Israel.
• Zechariah spoke of the ultimate glorification of Israel being fulfilled through the coming the promised Messiah, Jesus.

Content

• The call to repentance and obedience: Zechariah 1:1-6
  • Zechariah 1:3,4 (NKJV) Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Return to Me,” says the LORD of hosts, “and I will return to you,” says the LORD of hosts. “Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets preached, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.” But they did not hear nor heed Me,” says the LORD.
• Nine visions of assurance: Zechariah 1:7-6:15

• Obedience versus legalism: Zechariah 7:1-8:23
  • Zechariah 7:5-7(NKJV)” Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests: When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months during those seventy years, did you really fast for Me-for Me? When you eat and when you drink, do you not eat and drink for yourselves? Should you not have obeyed the words which the LORD proclaimed through the former prophets when Jerusalem and the cities around it were inhabited and prosperous, and the South and the Lowland were inhabited?
• Judgment on Israel’s enemies: Zechariah 9:1-8
• The coming King: Zechariah 9:9-14:21
  • Zechariah 9:9,10(NKJV) “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, Lowly and riding on a donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey. I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim And the horse from Jerusalem; The battle bow shall be cut off. He shall speak peace to the nations; His dominion shall be from sea to sea, And from the River to the ends of the earth.”

Christ in the Book of Zechariah

• The coming King
  • Zechariah 9:9,10(NKJV) “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, Lowly and riding on a donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey. I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim And the horse from Jerusalem; The battle bow shall be cut off. He shall speak peace to the nations; His dominion shall be ‘from sea to sea, And from the River to the ends of the earth.’
  • Zechariah 6:12-13 (amp) Then say to Joshua, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Behold (look, keep in sight, watch), a Man (Messiah) whose name is Branch, for He shall branch out from His place (Israel, the Davidic line); and He shall build the [ultimate] temple of the Lord. ¹³ Yes, [you are to build a temple of the Lord, but] it is He who shall build the [ultimate] temple of the Lord, and He shall bear the honor and majesty [as the only begotten of the Father] and sit and rule on His throne. And He shall be a Priest on His throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between the two offices [Priest and King].”’